Giant Mechanical Riding Spider

Credit where credit is due. We got this cordial heads-up from the Mondo Spider team in the comments section of the Tate Gallery Spider post:

"Big deal. A spider that sits there and does nothing... We built a 1500Lb mechanical spider that we can drive." That they did.

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